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J. K. MILNOR.

LIFTER FOR. TRUNK LIDS.

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By CAM 3 a W Patented S ept. 9, 1884.

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Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH K. MILNOR, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. FRANK MILNOR, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LIFTER FOR TRUNK-LIDS;

FJ'PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,013, dated September 9, 1884-.

Application filed July 18, 1884. (No model.)

.attached. Fig. 3 is aview of the lifting-ring and aseparate attaching-plate. Fig. 4 is a view of atrunk to which the improvement is applied.

The look A is of the hasp description. The hasp b may be of ordinary construction, and its attaching-plate c has holes d for nails or rivets d, by which it may be secured, as usual, to the trunk-top.

The improved lifting-ring e is loosely secured, preferably to the hasp-plate, as shown When the plate a is cast, the tang f has position at a right angle or projecting straight out from the back, as ,indicated by the broken lines. It is then bent down, as shown, to inclose the ring. By this or any other suitable construction the lifting-ring may be connected permanently to the plate. Where the liftingring is secured to the plate which carries the lock-hasp, the same nails or rivets hold both, and the only additional cost over existing locks is for the ring itself.

, The ring as a trunk-lid lifter is much superior in point of durability to the leather-loops commonly used. 7

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl. The hasp-plate of a trunk-lock, provided with an eye, f, and a ring loosely secured in said eye, as set forth.

2. A lifter 'for trunk-lids, consisting of an attaching-plate, 0, having an eye, f, open on JOSEPH K. MILNOR.

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